Thomas Pogge Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.

  Thomas Pogge

  Persistence, Income, World

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• The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.

  Thomas Pogge

  People, Income, Three

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• Given the total income and wealth available in the world today, we could easily overcome poverty, which would require raising the share of the bottom half from three to roughly five percent. Unfortunately, the trend is going in the opposite direction.

  Thomas Pogge

  Opposites, Overcoming, Income

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• Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

  Thomas Pogge

  Political, Income, Matter

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